In a recent case in Tax Court, Lauria v HMQ 2021 TCC 66, the taxpayers, both officers and directors of a company held shares in the company as a result of employee share option agreements granted to them. In early 2006, the company founders decided to pursue an initial public…
Tag: Spousal Trusts
Today’s guest blogger is Wendy Templeton. Wendy is a member of the Wills, Estates and Wealth Management Group at LLF Lawyers in Peterborough, Ontario. She is a well-known author and lecturer with a background in taxation of trusts and estates, business succession, and wills, trusts and estates. She has a…
In my last Blog I wrote about how a surviving spouse received $70 per month for decades. In such a situation a Trustee is needed who will be around for a long time. The following example is at the other end of the spectrum. This example is about Patricia Kluge….
When Gertrude Janeway died in 2003, she was still getting a monthly cheque for $70 from the Veterans Administration for a military pension earned by her late husband, John, on the union side of the American civil war that ended in 1865.